Keyboard is dissabled when booting from a live distro disk.

[colinmcc]

Hi,

I've been subscribing to LFX for several years, and can't boot from any of their 'live distro' cover-disks.

The problem: I have a mint box pro, and if I boot it with any magazine's 'live distro' cover-disk in an external drive , I get the select a live distro menu from the disk as expected, ( so USB ports are enabled, and boot from USB too) BUT... at that point in the sequence my USB keyboard is disabled and so my tab key, enter key do not work!

I've found on occasion in the past with other older hardware that I had to plug in a PS2 keyboard if I wanted to interrupt a boot sequence before the USB drivers were active, but since the mint box has no ps2, and the boot from the external USB drive is working I am at a loss.

So, I sit there looking at all these live distros to try but am unable to select or try one! ;-(

All I can do at that point is hit the power switch to shut down, unplug the drive then boot again as normal.

I bought the mint box pro in the fall of last year, it has been running mint 13 cinnemon 64 bit happily (pre-installed) , I was hoping to see how Mint 14 Cinnemon 64 bit looked. Which is the feature on Linux Format magazine's February issue, # 167. I have also tried booting with cover disks from Linux Pro Magazine, same problem, no keyboard active to continue once the menu comes up.

Have you any advice as to why/how to enable my keyboard before the cover disk splash screen comes up?

Thanks

[bb333]

Boot back into 13. Open a terminal:

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$ lsusb

Post results here. Or just search google with your keyboard hardware ID that is listed.

[catweazel]

So, I sit there looking at all these live distros to try but am unable to select or try one! ;-(

You may need to tell your machine's BIOS to use its USB kbd in legacy mode.

[colinmcc]

Boot back into 13. Open a terminal:

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$ lsusb

Post results here.

Thanks, here it is:

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colin@Mint-Box-Pro ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c03e Logitech, Inc. Premium Optical Wheel Mouse (M-BT58)
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 13d3:3331 IMC Networks
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 1a2c:0021 

Some 'Googling' leads me to this [url]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782347
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Which indicates it has been a known problem for some time. I will see if there is anything in the bios that will 'fix' it.

[bb333]

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1a2c  China Resource Semico Co., Ltd
        0021  Keyboard
        0024  Multimedia Keyboard

http://www.semico.com.cn/SemicoEN/Products.aspx

Enable legacy usb support in BIOS.